I have an old tower, a 900Mhz machine. It was the first machine I ever installed Linux on. I don't know why I never got rid of it, but I still have it for archiving.
This particular machine has an ATI All In Wonder 8500DV. It has a TV out attached to it. I use it mostly for making VCD video to take on the go. Well, the other day, I hooked the cables up to the wrong input. Suddenly, during the system boot screen where it checks memory and so on, the screen changes resolution and size on the monitor. It appears it thought it was connected to a TV. This intrigues me because I was under the impression that the composite TV Out on video cards runs through a driver (read that: Windows only). But with this going to TV resolution as soon as I switched on the machine, I'm thinking it might be hardware based and not be software related at all. The only reason I haven't tried experimenting is that I'm not sure how risky this is under Linux. I know setting the resolution cautions to set the frequencies and such correctly or you could damage the monitor, and I'm leery of trashing my TV. So is anyone familiar enough with video cards to know if the switch is truly hardware based, and would potentially work with DOS if I so tried it? If so, do I have to set the display under Linux for something first before I start it up on the TV? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
